World Cinema and the Essay Film: Transnational Perspectives on a Global Practice

Brenda Hollweg; Igor Krstić

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2019

World Cinema and the Essay Film

Transnational Perspectives on a Global Practice

Brenda Hollweg and Igor Krstić

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474429269

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Explores the essay film as a global film practice

World Cinema and the Essay Film examines the ways in which essay film practices are deployed by non-Western filmmakers in specific local and national contexts, in an interconnected world. The book identifies the essay film as a political and ethical tool to reflect upon and potentially resist the multiple, often contradictory effects of globalization. With case studies of essayistic works by John Akomfrah, Nguyen Trinh Thi and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, amongst many others, and with a photo-essay by Trinh T. Min-ha and a discussion of Frances Calvert’s work, it expands current research on the essay film beyond canonical filmmakers and frameworks, and presents transnational perspectives on what is becoming a global film practice.

Key features

Includes well-known and fresh voices of essay film practice from around the world
Features examples from essay film practice as research
Contains interviews with non-western filmmakers, in-depth case studies of global essay film practice and self-reflexive essays by scholars and film practitioners

Includes case studies of works by:

John Akomfrah
Noël Burch and Allan Sekula
Frances Calvert
Toshi Fujiwara
Grant Gee
Amos Gitai
Cathy Greenhalgh
José Luis Guerín
Jonas Mekas
Angela Melitopoulos
Luc Moullet
Nguyen Trinh Thi
David Perlov
Agnieszka Piotrowska
Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Zhao Liang

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Notes on the Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction Brenda Hollweg and Igor Krstic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE CINEPHILIC DIALOGUES
1. The Essay Film and its Global Contexts: Conversations on Forms and Practices Laura Rascaroli, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Bo Wang and Susana Barriga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. Essay Films about Film: The ‘Filmed Correspondence’ between José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas Fernando Canet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
PART TWO MOBILITIES AND MOVEMENTS
3. Accented Essay Films: The Politics and Poetics of the Essay Film in the Age of Migration Igor Krstic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
4. Cottonopolis: Experimenting with the Cinematographic, the Ethnographic and the Essayistic Cathy Greenhalgh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
5. The World Essay Film and the Politics of Traceability Giorgio Avezzù and Giuseppe Fidotta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
PART THREE LABORATORY OF MEMORIES
6. Memory as a Motor of Images: The Essayistic Mode in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Variations of Uncle Boonmee Christa Blümlinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
7. ‘Time Turning into Space’: Innocence of Memories’ Prismatic Istanbul Tim O’Farrell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
8. Lovers in Time: An Essay Film of Contested Memories Thomas Elsaesser and Agnieszka Piotrowska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
PART FOUR LANDSCAPES OF TRAUMA
PART FOUR LANDSCAPES OF TRAUMA 9. No Man’s Zone: The Essay Film in the Aftermath of the Tsunami in Japan Marco Bohr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
10. ‘Image-writing’: The Essayistic/Sanwen in Chinese Nonfiction Cinema and Zhao Liang’s Behemoth Kiki Tianqi Yu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
PART FIVE ARCHIVAL EFFECTS
11. Indigenous Australia and the Archive Effect: Frances Calvert’s Talking Broken as Essay Film Peter Kilroy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
12. Between Autobiography, Personal Archive and Mourning: David Perlov’s Diary 1973–1983 in Tel Aviv Ilana Feldman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
AFTERIMAGES: A PHOTO-ESSAY
Strangely Real: A Reassemblage from the Film Forgetting Vietnam Trinh T. Minh-ha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Illustrations
- Other: 40 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474429269